Students in UNT’s fashion design program examine haute couture creations in the Texas Fashion Collection, considered one of the most important historic fashion collections in the country. The collection lives in a 4,500-square-foot climate-controlled room on campus.

The College of Visual Arts and Design has received a $500,000 gift to assist in the enrichment and renaming of the college's already noted fashion design program to the Michael Faircloth Fashion Design Program.

The Texas Fashion Collection has four outfits by famed designer Charles James -- and one of them played a role in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of James' works, "Beyond Fashion," running until Aug. 10. The collection loaned an understructure of an evening gown's skirt.

Jewelry designer Tamar Navama ('15 M.F.A.) had one of her most interesting career experiences this fall -- creating pieces for Naadam Cashmere clothes that appeared on the runway for New York Fashion Week.

A wool evening dress designed by Li-Fen Anny Chang, assistant professor of fashion design, was the winner in the adult division of the Texas Make It With Wool competition and represented Texas in the National Make It With Wool contest, where Chang received honorable mention.